Determining combination of bits

[Scott David Daniels]

Grant Edwards wrote:
  > Perhaps it's "valid", but in 25+ years of doing hardware and
> low-level software this is the first time I've ever heard the
> phrase "least significant bit" refer to anything other than the
> "rightmost" bit (the one with a weighting of 1).
> 
I tried to say, 'least significant one bit' (or 'on bit), but may
missed it in at least a sentence or two.

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org